#ruination

Amber, you own the house, you built the house, you filled it with happy and kind people

There’s no shame in your very complicated set of medical conditions.

What should make your blood run cold and your mouth dry is what *I* know. I don’t even have to threaten you with telling your wife, I could do so much more LASTING damage through your in-laws.

@sissybabyneedsdiscipline

ellipsisaspired:

Thank you! Today it’s braces, tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth yanked. A VERY BAD week. Also, I should probably get a 48 hour pass on anything I post anywhere on the interwebs as wisdom teeth = drugs. 

Actually, maybe I should just hide all the technology before going under. ;)

I don’t blame AA. To be clear, I hate Mary, esp S4 Mary. And yes, Mary’s plotline ruined the entire show. But it’s not Amanda’s fault. The fault lies squarely with the writers. I’m sure AA would have loved to have been written as a scenery-chewing bad ass villain in S4 ala Moriarty. She even hinted at such on her twitter. But nope, they made her a ridiculous martyred Mary Sue.

I blame Moftiss’s blindspot. I think Mark specifically refused to do a gay romance because the fans wanted it so badly. It wasn’t his initial idea, so a big FU to fans, especially since he has shown contempt for female fans of gay ships before. The more we wanted it, the more they dismissed the idea as ‘ridiculous’. Which is so idiotic right there.

They told us all along they weren’t going to do it, that it wasn’t their idea for the series, and, unfortunately, they were telling the truth. I personally think they saw Sherlock as secretly in unrequited love with John at the start of the show, ala The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. But at the end they pivoted away even from that due to the huge pressure of the johnlock ship and their knee jerk reaction away from any hint of a romance. Hence that ridiculous bringing up of Irene in TLD.

The truth is: the show wasn’t all that brilliant from the start. It’s a modern day Sherlock Holmes with TPLoSH vibes. That’s it. We were fooled by how good the early scripts were into thinking they were going someplace planned and wonderful and amazing. But they weren’t. 

My own guess is that Ben played Sherlock falling in love because that was the “secretly in unrequited love” part. And I think Martin played John in love because that’s really the secret tension, how it should have been, the interesting bit. It’s not Martin or Ben’s fault that S4 scripts served so hard away from that and basically blew the entire narrative.

But I suppose we’ll never know. Maybe someday Martin will talk openly about it. I sensed even before S4 he was disappointed with the direction things had gone, in that one radio interview he did where he said he doubted there’d be any more that it had ‘run its course’.